Word Meanings - ANIMUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Animating spirit; intention; temper. nimus furandi Etym: , intention of stealing.

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• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• TEMPERER
  One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• ANIMATER
  One who animates. De Quincey.
• INTENTIONAL
  Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
• ANIMATION
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
• TEMPERATURE
  Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• UNTEMPERATE
  Intemperate.
• ILL-TEMPERED
  1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• ANIMUS
  Animating spirit; intention; temper. nimus furandi Etym: , intention of stealing.